Your wife (or girlfriend, or female acquaintance) has probably brought this up once or twice upon passing a sign for a $10 barber in your company: Women's haircuts are a hell of a lot more expensive than guy's. Well, they do tend to have more hair. Plus, it's just the way of the world, right? Not necessarily.

Over in Denmark, a debate has been taking place over just that issue. You see, the Danes fancy themselves especially advanced when it comes to matters of gender equality, and the country's Board of Equal Treatment recently found that salons and barber shops charging different prices for men's and women's cuts are violating Danish law. The hairdressers and barbers, for their part, argue that the disparity is completely reasonable, because it tends to take longer to cut and style women's hair. Some have suggested charging different rates for long, medium, and short hair as a fix, but others say that's too open to interpretation.

We say, why not charge according to the total amount of time the cut takes? Sure, that's means that some scissor-weilding miscreants may dawdle for the sake of a few extra bucks, but with a proper pricing system — i.e. one that rewards stylists for moving on to the next client by tapering off the fees as their time with each individual wears on — we think it could work out pretty well. And if things do devolve into some sort of haircut-themed Wild West, where financial and follicular abuse run rampant? Just shave everyone's head and call it a day. Equality!